Quotations About / On: SONG

  • 41.
    For laughter frames the lips of death—
    Death frames the Singer and the Song.
    (Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Non Omnis Moriar.")
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  • 42.
    SING a song of 'sistence
    Pocket full of Eye
    Two billion Turtle-doves
    Mourning in a sty
    (Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Two Conceits.")
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  • 43.
    Roll forth, my song, like the rushing river,
    That sweeps along to the mighty sea;
    (James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), Irish poet. The Nameless One (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 44.
    My great brother
    Lord of the Song
    wears the ruff of
    forest bear.
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A Psalm Praising the Hair of Man's Body.")
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  • 45.
    A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
    (Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 268 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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  • 46.
    Singing I was at peace,
    Above the clouds, outside the ring:
    For sorrow finds a swift release in song
    And pride its poise.
    (Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972), Irish poet. The Conflict (l. 13-16). NoP. Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 47.
    Once more La Traviata sighs
    Another sadder song:
    Once more Il Trovatore cries
    A tale of deeper wrong;
    (Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), British poet. The Barrel-Organ (l. 153-156). . . Family Book of Verse, The. Lewis Gannett, ed. (1961) Harper & Row.)
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  • 48.
    Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side,
    And madness chooses out my voice again,
    Again.
    (Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet, critic. Cassandra (l. 4-6). . . The Blue Estuaries; Poems 1923-1968 [Louise Bogan]. (1968; repr. 1988) Ecco Press.)
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  • 49.
    You praised and knew
    the song they made was worthless
    and the note,
    they sung
    was dross.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Chance Meeting.")
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  • 50.
    O quick quick quick, quick hear the song sparrow,
    Swamp sparrow, fox sparrow, vesper sparrow
    At dawn and dusk.
    (T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. Cape Ann. . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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